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Your website is a relatively easy way to expand your business overseas, writes Anita Campbell, who reminds business owners to not only translate content for overseas markets, but to think about cultural differences in graphics as well. She also emphasizes the importance of complying with government export regulations and calculating shipping time and cost.

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Using the concept of return on investment can help you make better business decisions, writes Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends. "[W]hen you discipline yourself to think about each expenditure in terms of what you get back from it, it will help keep your business profitable," she writes. It's not always easy to calculate ROI, but you should still try to get an idea of how much value your efforts are creating, she writes.

Small businesses can be just as "green" as big ones, although they sometimes aren't as careful to communicate that commitment to various audiences. Publish your sustainability plan, highlight your green packaging and post videos of your recycling efforts prominently on your website, Anita Campbell suggests.

Expanding around the world requires little more than an Internet connection, but if you really want to build your business overseas, the first step is knowing what you don't know and educating yourself on foreign markets, writes John Jantsch. In addition, you need to know how your brand translates overseas and internationalize your websites.

Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends, attempts to reconcile conflicting studies from the Small Business Association and Kauffman Foundation about whether more people start companies during a recession. Campbell writes that the difference may be that people who cannot find a job may start short-term businesses, with no employees, until they can find a job.

Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends, attempts to reconcile conflicting studies from the Small Business Administration and Kauffman Foundation about whether more people start companies during a recession. Campbell writes that the difference may be that people who cannot find a job may start short-term businesses, with no employees, until they can find a job.